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Twitter has confirmed it will finally be launching its own advertising platform in the next month. At present, websites such as Twittad have already offer the opportunity to advertise by two different methods: finding and targeting specific users directly based on their demographic/location/interests or campaigning for Twitter users with over 500 followers to advertise on their behalf. But an officially sanctioned ad system is a very different ball-game.

The following article is taken from the March edition of the interaction newsletter. In one of the articles, Gareth Owen wrote a piece about the regulation of social media marketing in the UK. Below is his opinion on this subject.

News International today announced the long awaited details of their pay-wall initiative for the Times and Sunday Times websites.  Matt Delaney, Account Manager in the MEC Manchester Press team, gives his view on the plans:

{jcomments off}As you’re all probably aware by now, MEC Manchester loves to help people in need. Our latest adventure is for MedEquip4Kids.

4 Brave MEC staff will be doing a terrifying 50 mile hike across the Pennines. Yes you heard right, 50 Miles!! That’s just shy of two marathons to complete from sunrise to sundown, same day!

Until recently, Google have been developing an open source project called Google Gears. It was a new method of allowing browsers and web applications to interact with your desktop and store data in fully searchable databases. A good example of how Google Gears useful functionality was to offer offline support in Gmail. 

MEC Manchester likes raising money for good causes.

MEC Manchester doesn't do things by halves.

So we have set ourselves a Sports Relief challenge.

MEC were sponsoring Think Visibility in Leeds at the weekend. Six people from MEC's eleven strong SEO team attended the conference on Saturday: Carolyn Jones, David Towers, Dan Alderson, Waqar Shah, Mike Montgomery and Tahera Dudhwala.

{jcomments on}"As Google has become an increasingly unavoidable behemoth (as this video points out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfV6RzE30), it is easy to overlook the number of smaller search engines that are offering some real changes.  Here are three of the broad types of threat that may emerge a long time in the future:

This week our very own Deputy MD,Emma Slater turned 40!

Recent research carried out by Dollywagon, a media sciences research company and other lines of enquiry for the RAB was set to measure the amount of browsing time a sample of people spent after hearing 23 radio advert’s.